Brooklyn is officially a tween! Not sure how I feel about having an 11 year old. She is growing up way too quickly. We didn't do anything too exciting to celebrate, but I think she had a great day and could feel how much she is loved, which I count as a success. Celebrations started with a day out with Grandma. They went out to lunch and then went shopping for some clothes. Brooklyn had fun going to the actual mall. Her actual birthday was on Thursday and I made some cinnamon rolls for breakfast and dessert. After school she had soccer practice and we took donuts to the girls to celebrate. That evening she opened up her gifts from us. She has been begging for a turtle for years and our original plan was to get one for her, but after doing a lot of research I figured out that they were quite a bit more expensive than we thought and took a lot more care than we thought. So we bagged that idea and had to quickly come up with something else, since she had nothing else on her birthday list. We decided on a new golf club set and bag (her old ones were way too small) and a Luke Bryan concert with Mom in August. Luckily she thought both were pretty cool. As Craig was showing her all the clubs her set came with, when he got to the Sand Wedge she goes, "oh the sandwich, that's my favorite club!" It was pretty hilarious, she legit thought that was what it was called. On Friday we went out to Blaze Pizza for her birthday dinner and then back to our house for more cinnamon rolls and to open her gift from Nana and Pops, which was a trip to the nail salon with Nana for a pedicure and manicure. Saturday afternoon we dropped Brooklyn off with Nana to cash in on her gift. She came home with bright orange finger nails and blue toenails and a big smile on her face. You could tell that she was thrilled with all the one on one time that she got with her grandparents.
She is such a bright to our family. She is happy and easy to get along with. She is occasionally a little bossy to her little brother, but I think that is just par for the course. She loves to read, play all of her sports, be outside, eat pizza and desserts, spend time with her friends and cousins, watch football and sleep in. She is truly a joy to be around and luckily has a lot of people who love and support her. She is very excited to grow up, but I am so grateful that she still wants to spend time with us and that she is still my little girl at heart. We love her so much and know that our family would not be complete without her.
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